Education and Creativity

Hi:

 Education and creativity is the topic for this post. I think that that is a really interesting topic, for the moment that we are living in our country and how is the occidental world educating their child. I have share the same point of view, that school kill creativity, from some time ago.

I’m agree that the schools doesn’t foment a development of our creativity, because everything that we learned in the school is something already done, we don’t need to think about how you get to some math formulas and why the formula is like it is. The only thing that we do (the most of the times) is learn something and then apply it (but not on the most of the cases).

If with the traditional knowledge given by the school there aren’t so many activities for develop the creativity, what could we expect about artistic subjects? I know that in other countries the school realize more artistic activities than in Chile, and they also have better implements for that. But the matter is that those kinds of activities are not the most important in the curricular contents. I think that one important part of the problem is, as Ken Robinson says, that the schools are made for prepare university people, and obviously not everyone has the same facilities and skills for that, but they are really good in arts for example.

I hope that the education would be saw in other way with the time, because there are every time more people that take care about this matter and are suggesting new kinds of education. In fact there are some schools that have different philosophies of education, like Waldorf or Montessori. I suppose that the reason of why we don’t have an education that stimulates our creativity is that the system need people who doesn’t care too much about why things happens. I think that creativity make a awake mind, not like a sheep who doesn’t occurred how to change things that are not right.

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Magical Worlds

Hi people:

  Today I want to talk about the fiction, and about the books of fantasy and their worlds, like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, etc. Since I was ten years old I like this kind of things, especially when I saw the movie of the Lord of the Rings. I really appreciate the authors of the books, because you need a lot of imagination for invent a story and more for invent new worlds where the stories happens.  

Ok, what I most like are the main characters that have to pass for a lot of fantastic adventures and they need to defeat monster and all those things. I always wanted to live an adventure like those in that kind of worlds, and travel in my horse huge distances for some crazy mission or just in search of adventures, staying in different towns and cities. There is a lot of classic kind of characters, and the one that I most liked are the wizards, with their tunics and rods, using their powerful magic in the battles. You know that in some video games, or roles games you can play in a fantasy world and do all those things that I have described, and the times that I have played it I always select a wizard for my character.

I don’t know why I feel attract by that kind of imaginary worlds, but I would love to live in one. Other thing that I always liked is the way that the people use to live on those stories, like on the middle age, without our technology.

I think that one character worthy of admiration is the Quixote, because he lived a life of adventures ass a knight just in his imagination. The book has a very, very deep story that goes more far than just the madness of the Quixote. There are a lot of reflections and learning for many, many people that has read it.

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Websites (june 7 2011)

Hi guys:

  Ok, let’s talk about the internet, specify of the web sites that I use to visit more often than other websites. I think that one of the websites that I most time on, as a lot of my classmates hahaha, is facebook. I think that the reason of that is that on that website, we can do a lot of things of our social life that we can’t do in certain moments. For example if we are in our houses we cannot spent all our time talking by phone with our known people. Also facebook is very useful for organize parties or our classes for example.

 Other site that I visit very often is YouTube, and I also like it a lot. In YouTube I use to see music videos more than any other kind of video. I use it for learn songs in guitar sometimes or for search some songs that I´m searching for. One of the things that I like of You Tube is the variety of videos that you can find in it, and that is free for anyone who dispose a web connection to upload their videos. I think that You Tube is a website, with Google and Facebook, that has revolutionized the use of the internet everywhere in the globe.

Those are the two websites that I most time spend on, also I visit g-mail and Hotmail, but just for check my e-mail. I feel a little bit bad because I use internet just for things that are not really important, and I could use for any other things that I should care more. Finally, other page that I use to visit for get some laugh is Porlaputa hahhaha…

that’s all folks!